Okay, so people weren’t too enthused by the Screenhead Film Festival’s big prize giveaway (it was ten DVDs, man! That’s got a retail value of like two, maybe three hundred bucks!), but I’ve got something here that might put some fire in your belly.
It’s the Indieroar Film Festival, and I just got word of it from director Alan Rowe Kelly. Top prize? Five THOUSAND dollars.
Plus, you’ll also get some film editing software with that. And if that isn’t enough, there are also second and third prizes too, a thousand bucks a crack. Entries are being accepted in five categories: horror, drama, comedy, animation and documentary, and each entry must be UNDER twenty five minutes in length.
The public will vote on the gathered films, and winnow down the entries to the top twenty five in each category, the winners of which will be decided by a jury.
So if you’re a short film maker and you’re up for a shot at five grand, grab your camcorder and get to shooting. Deadline for entry is January 15th, 2010.
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Okay Screenhead patrons, listen up, because we’ve got some interesting, never before seen (here) news for you today.
You’ve watched us write up the very best and the very worst stuff that Hollywood has to offer, and you’ve even seen us tear apart the same grade on YouTube with our twice-daily review section.
Now, we’re putting out the call to you. Filmmakers, do you think you’ve got what it takes to survive a Screenhead review? You know we’re among the toughest reviewers in the game, and we’re never afraid to call it like we see it. But if you think you’ve got the film to make us pull that thumb up, metaphorically speaking, then you can enter the first annual (assuming we actually get some entries) Screenhead Film Festival.
Why would you put yourself through this kind of hellish scrutiny, you wonder? Why would you put your work up on a chopping block that has generated such choice phraseology as “this literally unwatchable inky smear (of a movie)” and “desperately longed to be avant-garde but instead was pure avant-crap“?
Simple–we’re offering PRIZES.
That’s right, kids, I’m opening up my own private movie locker to get the winner a prize pack of TEN DVDs. I’m not going to tell you which ones, but know this–they’re movies. And they’re FREE.
Ten DVDs goes to the winner, so grab your friends and your camcorders and start filming. Just post the film to YouTube and post a link to it on this comment page. In turn, your short will be reviewed right here on Screenhead. All submissions must be received by Saturday, October 31, 2009 and a winner will be announced Monday, November 9, 2009.
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Seems like Rec is well on its way to becoming a franchise–not only has the sequel already bowed in Spain to a fairly respectable opening weekend, but Rec 3 now has its own website just established. The website, which can be found here, has just one word on it:
Proximamente
Which, if you speak Spanish, or just in case you don’t, translates roughly as “soon”.
I have to admit that I’m terribly happy about such an idea. I loved both the first Rec and its remake, Quarantine, and having seen the trailer for the second Rec, it too looks like a gigantic dose of fun on a bun.
Sadly, there is no word about when Rec 2 will make its way to the United States (in anything other than festival form), and there’s only Proximamente as far as word co when Rec 3 will be released at all. So there’s plenty of news yet to come on this series, and you know we’ll be watching every second.
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The Tribeca Film Festival has rescheduled the date of its first film festival in Doha, Qatar, to Oct. 29. The Doha Tribeca Film Festival was earlier scheduled for Nov. 10-14 and is a collaboration between Tribeca and the Qatar Museums Authority.
Announced back in November, this first Doha festival will be hosted at the Museum of Islamic Art and provide “a highly curated program as well as family-friendly events that will help to build, inspire and infuse film-focused educational initiatives in Qatar.” There will be more details to come in the Fall.
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Scene From "Love Exposure"
The New York Asian Film Festival has returned for its seventh year. Asia in this case mostly means the eastern end of the continent, with a particular emphasis on the area’s three film-producing centers: Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. This is a genuine enthusiast’s event, programmed by a collective of Asian film buffs with eclectic tastes. There are more than 50 features jammed into two weeks.
The New York Asian Film Festival runs through July 2 at the IFC Center, 323 Avenue of the Americas, at Third Street, Greenwich Village, (212) 924-7771, with associated screenings July 1 to 5 at Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, Manhattan, (212) 715-1258. Go to: subwaycinema.com for a complete schedule.
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